Manuscript Note on Printed Card from W. Averell Harriman to Rowland Evans

Very Good. 1970. Cards. Autograph; 1 pages; Manuscript Note on Printed Card from W. Averell Harriman to Rowland Evans (3.75" X 5") Mixed print & manuscript: "Dear Rowly / I will always remember / with deep appreciation / your thought and understanding / Marie was very fornd of you & Kay / & your friendship has meant much / to us. //With my affectionate regards / for you both. / Averell" This is a manuscript-embellished printed response note from Averell Harriman to reply to condolence letters on his wife's passing. W. Averell Harriman maried Marie Norton Whitney Harriman in 1930 after her divorce from Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. William Averell Harriman (1891 – 1986) was an American Democratic politician, businessman, and diplomat. The son of railroad baron E. H. Harriman, he served as Secretary of Commerce under President Harry S. Truman, and later as the 48th Governor of New York. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952 and 1956, as well as a core member of the group of foreign policy elders known as "The Wise Men". Marie was an American art collector and First Lady of New York from 1955 to 1958. She operated a prominent New York City art gallery for more than a decade. In the years before her death, she concentrated her charitable work on the New York Association for the Blind and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation. PROVENANCE: Rowland Evans was a provocative newspaper columnist, commentator and author who antagonized liberal politicians and championed conservative causes. He left Yale and enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 during World War II and was discharged in 1944 because of malaria. In 1963, Mr. Evans and Mr. Novak began writing ''Inside Report,'' an insider's view of politics that was published four times a week until Mr. Evans retired in 1993. Mr. Evans and Robert Novak began their work as columnists in the early 1960's, a time when newspaper columnists wielded outsize influence in national politics. The pair pioneered in transferring that influence to the medium of cable television with the political discussion program ''Evans & Novak'' -- carried on CNN from that cable network's beginning. Rowland Evans and his wife Kay (Katherine Winton Evans), also a respected writer and editor, were mainstays on the Washington social scene, hosting many memorable gatherings in their handsome Georgetown house -- to which flocked influential and remarkable people drawn from journalism, politics and general society over the decades from the 1960s to the 2000s. Both Evans and Novak became more predictably conservative over the years, particularly during the Reagan years. Reportedly, both columnists voted for JFK in 1960 and for Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Evans earned a place on Richard Nixon's infamous "Enemies List." Novak reported that Evans had JFK as a guest for the first dinner party the latter attended as President Elect. Kay and Rowland Evans has a particularly close friendship with Robert F. Kennedy, his wife Ethel and their family.; Signed by Author .